Why ‘weaponized incompetence’ is all over TikTok

Yahoo! News and Motherly quoted Nadine Shaanta Murshid — associate professor and associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion in the School of Social Work — about “weaponized incompetence,” the practice of manipulatively pretending to be incapable of doing something so that task falls to someone else.

“This is something that women have been dealing with all their lives,” Murshid said, in a story that originally appeared in TheSkimm. “The idea is that men are not good at certain things like domestic labor. And so, why not have women who are good at it, do it, because they’re naturally predisposed to being good at this?”